ashley: said flat line and it went down. tracy: maybe i jinxed it. ashley: president obama, meantime wrapping up joint news conference at the white house with the turkish prime minister, where he talked about everything from the irs scandal to national security. so much to talk about. peter barnes joining us live from the white house with the latest. peter? >> that's right, ashley. on the irs scandal he said, quote, we are going to be able to fix it. he was asked specifically about whether or not there should be a special counsel appointed to investigate the irs scandal and he, shot the idea down. he said that he felt that, that oversight from congress, investigations by inspectors general, and the criminal investigation at the justice department would be sufficient to get to the bottom of what happened at irs and to make sure that those problems are fixed and they don't happen again. of course the other thing that dominated this press conference was this, the ap national security case. on that the president was given the opportunity to distance hims